[B]..Freedom Lost or Glued..[/B]
[B] Brave Little Heart[/B]
[B]..It hear's it's kith and kin..
Flies down to see why the call..
Suddenly Little Heart is caught..
..it's brave heart struggle to be free..... ..but .not knowing ...why it so..
hear's foot steps coming towards it very slow....
....and a shadow blot's out the light of freedom so....
..and the little heart still struggles to escape...
..knowing this may be it's last struggle for life.
..Suddenly a animal growl shutters the quitness of
...the groves sunlight is back with all its joy so true
...as gentle hands hold it and remove little brave
....heart's feet from the glue...
......tenderly washing the feet of all glue......
......let's it stand upon his hand...
....looking up once it flies away free...
...and wondering is it a hairy Ape of the mangrove..
..but Brave Heart's blessing rain's down like a flare.
.....THANK YOU CHILD OF MAN FOR GIVING ME FREEDOM OF THE AIR....[/B]
....1st of May decided to go birding in the mangroves in the Telor Gong area(Malaysia.)..reached the bund and started walking with a heart full joy..for i was birding..about a mile away..near a bend saw this chap setting behind the bund on the canal side..when he was about 500 feet away i shouted what are you doing..suddenly he ran across the bund near a small tree..saw him plucking some things from the tree..i realised he was poaching..with a roar i started running to-wards him..quickly he picked up his bird cage and a bag and jumped into the canal on the side of the bund..on the village side..huffing and puffing i stopped and picked up a rock and flung it at him..did hit his back and he scrambled up the other side and ran..i kept shouting..that i will call the police..(as if they care..sigh)..after plonking my kowa..approched the bush..i felt pain when i saw the little one hanging upside down from the branch..took one picture..(..i couldnt free it and take a picture because my kowa isnt hand held..)..then gently removed the feet from the glue and washed it's feet with water,..(..glue was water solible) and opened my hand..i coud feel it's brave little heart fluttering on my hand..it rested for a while and with joy on it face it flew away to freedom...yes Oriental White-eye..i am sure the chap had plenty more in the bag..look at the pic's as it struggle's to be free..1st of May is a day of freedom to all mankind and some of them do this...i just couldnt bird any more..left for home but while driving back i realised that [B]..I had saved One at least..[/B]..then smiling i reached home..NOTE-i had put this bird up in the thread your birding day..but felt you'll should also see OUR MAN'S FOLLY..regards people...first time i have seen poaching.
